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quaranmeme2017-09-21 08:26 pm
riverview: september test drive meme
riverview test drive memeWelcome to Riverview's test drive meme! Feel free to dip your toes in on the test drive meme to try out your character in the setting, play out a mission, and get samples for your application at the same time!
● There are currently 40 Character Slots available.
● Applications are open and will remain open until such time as there are 30 or more character slots available at one time. Applications will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis. Any applications in excess of available spots will be placed in a queue and processed as drops or activity sweeps happen.
● Providing all parties are amenable, threads on the test drive meme can count as game canon, as the plot in the prompts presented is game canon, and may continue while applicants are waiting on the queue (including spanning multiple TDMs).
● TDM threads do not count for Activity Check, but they do count for Activity Bonus Points, so long as all characters involved are accepted into the game.
● Threading on the TDM is intended for prospective new characters, so top-levels should only be posted by players of these characters. Since the events in the TDM are considered game canon, characters currently in the game are free to use the TDM prompts for logs and posts on the regular communities.
Feel free to use the prompts below or create your own scenario. The setting is built to be flexible, so feel free to make things up as you go.
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With the fall months starting to set in, the leaves changing color, and the pumpkin spice lattés freshly unleashed into the Quarantine, many minds in the city (or at least the ones who've been around for over a year) are turning to the fall mushroom harvest.
Every year, several of the Quarantine's fanciest boutique restaurants are competing to make the most original new recipes with classic favorite mushroom varieties harvested fresh from the jungle. These glowing little shrooms are a rare once-a-year delicacy that half the Quarantine is totally bonkers for, and a restaurant can turn a really serious profit from capitalizing on those cravings. Of course, that means that they need to source the mushrooms from the jungle, which is much easier said than done, considering the fact that the monsters out there like the delicate fungal flavor just as much as the people in the city. So, restauranteurs around the Quarantine are putting up signs and advertisements everywhere from billboards to just after the credits of your favorite trashy reality TV show.
The monetary rewards for returning with a fruitful fungal harvest are extremely high, so if you're looking to feather your nest egg a bit and are willing to do a bit of exploring and brave some beasties, head out into the jungle in search of bounty.
The restaurant business isn't the only business that's interested in providing a chunk of change for some mushrooms from the jungle - there's also a less reputable trade in the type of mushrooms that don't end up in risotto. While the advertising is more covert, it's not much less obvious, particularly since the glowing mushrooms aren't exactly contraband and occupy a grey area, legally. In fact, if you're curious, you can pick them up at most of the outdoor markets around the city.
And what is it the mushrooms do? Well, in a way that's quite common when mushrooms are involved, things get a little trippy. Depending on the type of mushroom a character tries, there could be a wide variety of effects, most of which center around size changes and hallucinations or weird dreams. Whether it's all in a character's head, or they're actually changing size depends on the type of mushroom they ingest. Welcome to Wonderland!
NOTE: The mushrooms can have physical effects to change a character's size from however tiny you would like to go, up to a maximum of 15 feet tall, or they can have whatever sort of hallucinogenic or dream effects you choose, including dream sharing between characters who eat the mushrooms together. Be sure to warn in the subject line if you use this prompt in a way that resembles drug use. All effects wear off in a maximum of 24 hours.
Every year on the last full weekend of September (the 22nd until the 24th this year) there is a special event called Tavernfest. A mash-up of Oktoberfest and a renaissance faire, Tavernfest is a tradition celebrating and promoting various local breweries in the Quarantine, along with food that pairs well with their beers, in a setting that hearkens back to historical periods. Costumes are encouraged, and everything about the fair is rustic and simple, from the cooking methods to how the brews are served to the various fair games and attractions.
Considering the nature of the Quarantine, though, 'historical' can mean a lot of different things, so expect to see people dressed in a wide variety of historical costumes from their own worlds and planets. The sharing of culture is encouraged at Tavernfest just as much as it is everywhere else in the Quarantine, so attendees are highly encouraged to wear the historical garb of their own worlds and talk about what it means to them!
NOTE: Riverview's legal drinking age is 14+.
This one's pretty simple - this is the month where autumn is really starting to kick in, and autumn on this moon means lots of rain showers. In fact, the rain can be so prevalent that there's a long-standing trend of people in the Quarantine using umbrellas like fashion accessories. They can get quite fancy, matching them to their outfits or carrying umbrellas that are adorned with decorations ranging from cute to high-fashion to bedazzled.
The one difference between umbrellas and regular fashion accessories? Umbrellas are meant to be shared! Riverview Quarantine has a culture of sharing, and that's never more apparent than in the chilly autumn and winter months when the rain is falling and everything's damp and miserable. So whether your character is out and about sporting a fancy umbrella with room for one more, or if they forgot theirs and are looking for a generous stranger willing to spare some shelter, hopefully the culture of caring will prevail!
Whether your character is posting up a silly word game, trying to get hold of a friend, or putting out feelers for people to go out into the fray with, the network is going strong.
Alternately, an offer for a free app is popping up on new arrivals' devices - Friendr is a friend-finder and/or dating app. If characters choose to install it, they will fill out a short bio and parameters for what they're looking for, upload a snap of themselves, and then proceed to browse for matches. This is a typical swipe-left-or-right type app.
Friendr base code is by photosynthesis.
The code in the textbox is for the default color scheme, but the Friendr app has a wide variety of themes, so feel free to customize with colors and patterns as you see fit, but do not remove the credit line out of respect for the creator of the code.
Use the wildcard prompt to choose your own adventure and do whatever else you like in the setting!
Foggy Nelson | Netflix's Daredevil
oktoberfesttavernfest is coming][Listen, Foggy has spent years living, essentially, off instant ramen noodles, leftover takeout and shitty beer, all right? So Tavernfest is a feast that he has hitherto never known, full of food and drink and costumes ranging from the hilariously awful to the actually good. He hasn't picked up a costume, himself, he's still just trying to find his feet in this brave new world that is definitely not New York, but already he's wandering around the taverns trying out their foods.
He is a little bit tipsy, at the moment. It's good, he's great, he's just tipsy enough to have roped in some poor sucker into a story about a party gone terribly, horribly wrong:]
—and that's why I'm banned from going near that frat house again. [He takes a sip of his beer.] It wasn't a big loss, it was pretty terrible there anyway.
[You're kind of missing the point of it here, Nelson.]
[two: under my umbrella (ella ella)]
Oh, shit—
[The worst thing about being dragged from one world to another is that the weather doesn't necessarily match. Like: just a week or so ago, spring had just started and Foggy was bundling up all the more, and now here he is and autumn is just beginning.
And it's brought the rain with it, too. And here he is with no umbrella (besides a bag that he is holding protectively over his head to keep the worst of the rain off) and some job-hunting to do. Desperate times, clearly, call for desperate measures, and so once he spots a large enough umbrella he ducks underneath, trying to shake the rain off his bag.
He sighs, turns to look at whoever he's sharing the umbrella with.]
Hey, are you going anywhere near the Riverview City Hall?
[three: friendr is magic]
» Seeking: A good time! Alternately, I'm down with just getting a drink, it's been kinda a long week.
» Preferences: If you happen to know how the legal system works here, I'd love to pick your brain.
» Interests: law, getting paid
» Bio: I'm a lawyer! I promise I don't bite.
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And by 'let him', well...let's let that just be our little secret. ]
Tsk. Pickup lines have changed a lot since my day.
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If I was trying to pick you up, I'd have a better line than asking about City Hall. [And he's got plenty! They just vary from "passable" to "bro, no."] I'm actually looking for a job.
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Hey, YKINMK. I don't judge. [He's totally judging. ]
ME TOO! [Have a hug, the bro-iest of bro-hugs. ] Is that where they have it? Because, man, I've been looking for a good, you know, job site [wink wink elbow elbow --man, he misses Sister Margaret's.] since I got here.
Everything's so...[ shudder ] wholesome
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Probably? I don't know, man, I only just got here too. [Just going to try and break away here. He's starting to think he should probably take his chances with the rain.] I did hear there were a few slots open there, I was thinking of taking one up so I can put some capital together.
[Can't keep him away from law for long.]
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For now. ]
Me, too! [OMG the coincidences are just piling up. ] So, what say we find a juicy hit and split the profit? You can be the getaway driver. Or whatever.
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[Franky takes a drink out of a mug the size of a small barrel.
The man Foggy's chosen to sit next to is an enormous dude, with more mechanical parts than a human being should probably ever have. He seems pretty friendly, though - as a matter of fact, he's motioning for the bartender to get Foggy another drink.]
You get into that kind of trouble a lot?
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[Yeah, okay, this guy is, one: huge, and two: carrying around more mechanical parts than Foggy's used to seeing on anyone, but you know what? He can roll with that.
...also he is lying here. He does still get into trouble, it's just—not the fun kind that he can look back on later and laugh about.]
For one thing, I'm a much more responsible adult now, and I'm not as young as I used to be.
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[Franky looks Foggy over for a moment. The guy can't be any older than his late twenties - thirty at the latest.]
Hell, I'm probably older than you and I still get into loads of trouble.
[He's part of a pirate crew that picks fights with the government. Don't be like him, Foggy.]
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[ With the checkmark comes a call — because of course he calls him. If there's one thing this city has been missing, it's Franklin Nelson. ]
Can't promise a good time, but are you still down for just getting a drink?
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Yeah, of course I am! I'm hurt and offended you think I wouldn't be. How long have we known each other?
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[ yeah, that's it. she's so nice. ]
rood
It's the lawyer thing, isn't it.
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A biting lawyer. I'm sure there has to have been one in Hell's Kitchen at some point lbr.